I just cannot understand how this movie is garnering good reviews left and right. Like, from the AV Club: "The film keeps a sometimes too-clinical distance but pushes buttons from afar, including a final act that turns into a series of outrages bound to upset audiences who might have stumbled in expecting the usual monster-of-the-week horror movie instead of this thriving, disturbing, thoughtful mutant of a movie."
Not so much the final act as the final half of the film deviates from a cutesy unconventional family film to WTFville. The start of the train to WTFville? The scene where Clive tries and fails to kill Dren as Elisa (Elsa?) watches unsuspectingly. That sequence alone was pretty interesting in that it revealed tons about the characters and the unraveling of the faith between the protagonists, but then cue lots of rapes and me whimpering in my seat. GAH.
Just because one can doesn't necessarily mean one should. But indie reviewers love "disturbing" because it can be thought-provoking. *shrug*
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Date: 2010-06-07 05:51 am (UTC)"The film keeps a sometimes too-clinical distance but pushes buttons from afar, including a final act that turns into a series of outrages bound to upset audiences who might have stumbled in expecting the usual monster-of-the-week horror movie instead of this thriving, disturbing, thoughtful mutant of a movie."
Not so much the final act as the final half of the film deviates from a cutesy unconventional family film to WTFville. The start of the train to WTFville? The scene where Clive tries and fails to kill Dren as Elisa (Elsa?) watches unsuspectingly. That sequence alone was pretty interesting in that it revealed tons about the characters and the unraveling of the faith between the protagonists, but then cue lots of rapes and me whimpering in my seat. GAH.
Just because one can doesn't necessarily mean one should. But indie reviewers love "disturbing" because it can be thought-provoking. *shrug*